Originally Posted by Trollheart

It actually makes it worse, tbh. When you know how much you have in your pocket, as in, when you had to take it out of the bank, you tend not to overspend, whereas with a c/c, even if I have enough in the account I'm still thinking "Man I hope this doesn't reject!" I'll do a quick calc in my head as to how much money should be there, but I don't check my bank a/c half as often as I should, which has in fact resulted in my being the victim of c/c fraud on three separate but non-consecutive occasions.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.